Galley-stop.



Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

'W. 1). RENT.

GALLEY STOP.

APPLIUATION FILED APR. 25. 1907.

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WILLIAM D. RENT, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

GALLE Y-STOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

Application filed April 25, 1907. Serial No. 370,260.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM D. RENT, a resident of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Galley-Stops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a stop for looking type in a galley, and one object is to provide improved means for adjust-ably securing the stop to the galley rim.

A further object is to provide the stop with an improved extensible type-engaging leg, thereby adapting it for galleys of clifferent widths, also for diiferent widths of type columns.

The invention also includes graduated holding means for the slide, whereby it may be readily extended any desired number of ems and there held. The stop is thus capable of adjustment with absolute accuracy to the width of column being set.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan View, partly in section, of the improved stop. Fig. 2 is an inner side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the clamping member. Fig. 6 is a cross section, enlarged, on line 66 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, the body of the step consists of two legs or branches 2 and 3, arranged in square-fashion or at right angles to each other, leg 2 being adapted to bear against and be secured to the galley rim 4, and leg 3 extending across the bed of the galley and engaging and holding the lower end of the type composition.

The clamp for adjustably securing leg 2 to the galley rim consists of two oppositely workin slidably connected members 5 and 6, the ormer depending on the inner face of leg 2, and part 6 embracing the outer face of rim 4. The transverse top portion 7 of part 5 is recessed on its upper face at 8, and this recess is open to receive the transverse top portion 9 of clamp part 6. The edges of these coacting parts are formed with the tongue and groove connections 10, which permit part 6 to slide freely and at the same time hold the parts in proper relative position. Depending through top portion 9 of part 6 is stem 11, provided at its upper end with operating head 12, and at its lower end carrying eccentric 13, which operates in the oval recess 14 in transverse parts 7 of clamping member By this means parts 5 and 6 of the clamp are caused to securely hold the stop at any desired point in the length of the galley rim, the clamping stem being readily manipulated for securing and releasing the stop as required.

From the foregoing it will be seen that part 5 carries part 6, and the former may be provided with a lug 15, secured by the pivot screw 15 to the inner face of leg 2, whereby the clamp may be turned upward and out of rim engaging position, as in dotted lines in Fig. 6.

The extensible feature of leg 3 consists of slide 16 fitted in a dove-tail recess 16 in the outer or upper face of leg 3 and slidable longitudinally for increasing the length of said leg, as may be required. The outer face of slide 16 is flush with face 3 of leg 3, so that when extended, the leg and slide together form a continuous straight edge for bearing against the type.

For holding slide 16 in adjusted position, its inner face may be formed with a series of depressions 17, preferably spaced twelve points apart, and adapted successively to be engaged by latch pin 18 normally pressing inward against the slide by the action of spring 19. Projecting from slide 16 is pin 20 which, when the slide is in inward position, may extend into a slot 21 in the outer end of leg 3. Latch pin 18 and depressions l7 cotiperate in such a manner that by grasping pin 20 slide 16 may be readily moved either inward or outward without manipulating latch 18, while at the same time the hold of the latter is suflicient to maintain the slide in the position in which it is set. With depressions 17 spaced as indicated the slide may be extended with exactness to the width of the column being set.

I claim 1. The combination of a galley stop adapted to engage the galley rim, a two-part clamp adapted to embrace the stop and rim, one of the parts having a transverse top portion formed with an open-top depression, said depression open through the extremity of the top portion with recess 14 formed in the bottom thereof, the other clamp section formed with the transverse tongue-like extension 9 fitting and slidable in said top depression, stem 11 extending vertically through said tongue-like extension, head 12 secured to the stem at the upper side of the extension, and eccentric 13 carried by the stem at the under side of said extension and pro ect1ng lnto recess H.

2. The combination of a galley stop adapted to engage the galley rim, a two-part clamp adapted to engage the stop and rim, one .of the clamp parts having a transverse top portion, formed with a slideway, the other clamp part having a transverse top portion fitted and movable in the slideway, and means for drawing the clamp parts together.

3. The combination of a galley stop adapted to engage the galley rim, a two-part clamp adapted to embrace the stop and rim, one of the parts having a transverse top portion formed with a depression in its upper face and the other clamp part having a transverse top portion slidable in said depression and having tongue and groove connections with the edges thereof, and means for drawing the clamp parts toward each other.

4. The combination of a galley stop adapted to engage the galley rim, a two-part clamp adapted to embrace the stop and rim, the clamp parts having overlapping top portions with one slidable on the other, a clamping stem carried by one of the top portions and depending into a recess in the other portion, and an eccentric secured to the stem within said recess.

5. The combination of a galley stop adapted to engage the galley clamp adapted to engage the stop and rim,

rim, a two-part.

one of the clamp parts having a transverse top portion formed with a slideway, the other clamp part having a transverse top portion fitted and movable in the slideway, means for drawing the clamp parts together, and a pivoted connection between one of the clamp parts and the stop whereby the twopart clamp may be turned upward out of clamping position.

6. The combination of a galley stop, a longitudinally movable slide carried by the stop and adapted to form a continuation of the type-holding face of the latter, device normally holding the slide in fixed position, said device being adapted to yield when pressure is applied to the slide for moving it longitudinally.

7. The combination of a galley stop, a lon gitudinally movable slide carried by the stop and adapted to form a continuation of the type-holding face of the latter, the slide having a longitudinal succession of holding points, and a spring WILLIAM D. RENT.

Witnesses R. DUNFORD, BI-RNEY HINEs.

and a spring r device carried by the stop normally engaging one or the other of 

